News & Notes

Published Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Genealogy series

The St. Augustine Genealogical Society will hold the last of the series of free classes on researching your family genealogy at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Family History Library at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 500 Deltona Blvd. in the St. Augustine Shores. The topic will be "Researching Web Site Records." The class is free and open to the public.

Visitors and individuals interested in family genealogy are invited to attend.

More genealogical information and links to St. Johns County resources and other genealogy sites can be found on the SAGS Web site @ www.stauggens.com.

For information, call 794-7970 or 797-9023.

Flapjacks for Friends

Johnny's Kitchen, 224 N. Main St., Hastings, will be the setting from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday for a fundraising membership breakfast for the Friends of the Hastings Branch Library. Featured will be dollar coffee, dollar juice and dollar pancakes.

For information, call 827-6970.

Celtic performance

The Center for Positive Living presents a special evening of Celtic music at 7 p.m. Saturday performed by the Maine duo of Julia Lane on the Celtic harp and Fred Gosbee guitar, fiddle, flute and whistles. Performing together since 1993, they play along the East Coast of the United States and in the British Isles., weaving storytelling, song and humor.

Tickets to this event are $6 and will be available at the door.

The Center is located at 1795 Old Moultrie Road, call 825-3600 for directions.

GED registration

St. Johns River Community College will hold registration from March 3-7 for the GED exam. Registration is held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Adult Education office, Room T107 of the Technical Building on the Palatka Campus. The next GED exam will be held March 27-28.

SJRCC offers adult education classes for students who wish to improve their basic educational skills and/or prepare to earn a Florida high school diploma through the General Educational Development (GED) program. For more information, call the adult education office in Palatka at (386) 312-4080 or the Orange Park Campus Adult Learning Center at 276-6780. Information is also available online at sjrcc.edu.

Coquina Crossing news

* The Coquina Veterans will present a benefit performance by the Coquina Players as a benefit for the homeless and disadvantaged veterans in St. Johns County.

"100 Years of Broadway in Song, Dance and Comedy" begins at 3 p.m. March 9 in the Coquina Crossing Ballroom, State Road 207.

Tickets are $15 and will be available through local veterans groups or by calling Michael Rothfeld, 829-0381 or by e-mailing carocats@bellsouth.net.

Seating is limited. All checks are tax deductible and should be made out to Vet Group South, a 5013 Corporation.

The proceeds from this fundraiser will be used by Vet Group South to help provide emergency shelter and food for homeless and disadvantaged veterans in this community.

* At 3 p.m. Friday, "FDR and the Path to World War II" will be presented at Coquina Crossing by Professor Richard M. Pious. Admission is $10 per person

Pious is a professor of political science at Barnard College/Columbia University, where he teaches courses on the American Presidency, Constitutional Law of Presidential-Congressional relations and American political decision making.